Top Green Beret Officer Forced to Resign Over Affair With WaPo Reporter

ABC News ^ | Jun 24, 2014 | JAMES GORDON MEEK, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and BRIAN ROSS

[nickcarraway]

A legendary Special Forces commander was quietly forced to leave the U.S. Army after he admitted to a love affair with a Washington Post war correspondent, who quit her job to secretly live with him for almost a year in one of the most dangerous combat outposts in Afghanistan.

U.S. Army Special Operations Command never publicly disclosed that highly-decorated Green Beret Major Jim Gant was relieved of command at the end of a harrowing 22 months in combat in March 2012.

His commanders charged in confidential files that he had "indulged in a self-created fantasy world" of booze, pain pills and sex in a tribal village deep in Taliban and al Qaeda country with his "wife," journalist Ann Scott Tyson.

[Bigg Red]

The betrayal was of their respective spouses and children. Breathtaking selfishness on their part, and characteristic special pleading by many on this thread. Good riddance.

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+1

[Bigg Red]

Your post makes sense, but, unfortunately, we shall never see that sort of policy.

[Bigg Red]

“They took part of my soul. Yeah, they did.”

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Yes, and I suppose, Mr. Grant, that your 4 children and the 4 children of the tramp you shacked up with could say the same.

[Bigg Red]

They’re my family, my family,” Gant said....

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And the devil take his real family that he abandoned is his attitude, I suppose.

[Noamie]

“I think you missed the part that said the Army was not revealing this. It just came out now.”

I made a reference to other articles that I have seen published on DailyMailUK.com about other soldiers.

No misses, but thank you.

[Delta Dawn]

Exactly...

[Vendome]

I got the impression they were single when this happened...

[Jack Hammer]

So.... now we fire troops for getting laid?

Too bad he wasn’t a queer - nobody’d dare say a word.

[Bigg Red]

I went to the source article. No, they were not single. Each was married and each had 4 children. They are total bums.

[GOPJ]

Heart of Darkness - part II

[Georgia Girl 2]

It will make a great movie.

[Vendome]

missed that part

great article.

Cept Ithink it’s really an ad for a book.

[Bulwyf]

A modified ak-47.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“Anyone know what weapon that is he’s carrying?”

I took a look at it and judging from the front sight, it looks a lot like an AK-47. Understandable if he is living with, working closely with, Afgan’s.

The magazine looks to be a 30 round for 7.62x39.

[Romulus]

Read before commenting.

[Ezekiel]

Gotta love this part (photo caption):

Backing: General David Petraeus is seen here with Major Jim Gant in Mangwel on a visit in 2011. The former general endorsed Gant's unconventional methods.

"unconventional methods"

Now *there's* a euphemism. Going native = "All In".

[Jack Hammer]

I HAVE read.

Unconventional war, unconventional guy.

I don’t expect the men who protect the nation to be Boy Scouts.

Evidently, some do expect it.

[latina4dubya]

Yes, and I suppose, Mr. Grant, that your 4 children and the 4 children of the tramp you shacked up with could say the same.

ooh... very good point...

[latina4dubya]

hahahahdahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bigg Red]

...really an ad for a book.

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Yeppers.